I Rez Therefore I Am

REBLOG, 4 April – The meteoric rise of iPhone App Girls Around Me to, well, deletion… has been the buzz of the blogosphere this week. But have many well meaning bloggers gotten the analysis of this techno-cultural issue completely wrong? Many posts have decried the invasion of privacy, even though the app only mashed up [...]

INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 4 April – Meet Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, and last, but certainly not least, Vaneeesa Blaylock. In almost 3 years, 2 years and 11 months to be precise, 1,068 days to be more precise, since joining Facebook on 2 May [...]

  It’s heartbreaking to realize that Facebook can be so inclusive to one oppressed minority as the above LGBTQ “It Gets Better” video clearly demonstrates, even as, one week ago, Facebook committed avatar genocide. “Avatar Genocide”?? I get it. Words like “Genocide” and “Slavery” are enormously powerful words that refer to the myriad examples of [...]

I don’t read Hamlet’s blog because he tends to upset me. Yes, I am a petty person. But perhaps I’ll live fractionally longer for admitting it to myself. Anyway, sometimes he throws up an interesting Tweet and I will go look at an article… I was poking around Plurk, and noticed his link to his [...]

OMG February 2011 – What a month! Last week Social Media was at the heart of regime change in Egypt… this week an IBM supercomputer is facing the 2 greatest champions in the history of Jeopardy… Ghonim described the revolution as “like Wikipedia,” and one can’t help but notice the resonance Watson has with Wikipedia… [...]

http://diasporadical.com/2010/12/16/time-person-of-the-year-is-zuckerberg-not-assange/ http://www.hulu.com/watch/202005/saturday-night-live-a-message-from-mark-zuckerberg It was really only a few years ago that everything I produced was Copyright All Rights Reserved. Then I met Jay Dedman. Then I met Micki Krimmel. Then I met Jon Phillips. Then I met Richard Stallman. Then I timidly dipped my toe in the waters of Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike. And for [...]

As the rather dramatic image above shows, my SL Network is so big (number of peeps and density of interconnections) that the SL “bolus” has become “me” and pushed all other connections out much like a star gone nova creating an annular nebula!

Aww, thanks Facebook “friends!”

If you need still more irony in your breakfast cereal, consider that the fictional film “Avatar” was #1 at the box office again this week… even as real Avatars are being executed on Facebook!

The 20th century was the age of mass media, a gigantic, top-down, few-to-many mode of transmitting information, of creating culture. The bulk of global media was famously controlled by a half dozen rich white guys. I don’t know about you, but they didn’t speak for me. Before the mass age, communication came from the family, [...]

I’m going thru some serious withdrawal pains with Touchgraph being down. So I’ve been shopping for alternate FB Friend Visualizations.

You can clearly see the “cancerous” sovereign nation of Second Life continue to, like nanobots with a defective self-replication-stop switch, take over my network.

In this frame you’ll notice a giant blob of friend-protoplasm threatening to take over this Friend Network Visualization! Yes, it’s that tightly interconnected army of Second Lifers!

Space Mountain is a “ride,” and that ride is more about Space Mountain than it is about you. Facebook is also a “ride,” and Facebook is more about Facebook than it is about you.

This just happens to be the exact same number of “real/meaningless” “friends” that, uh, “someone” I know took almost 3 years on Facebook to acquire.